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Originally Posted by Liviu_5
It makes no difference if it's print or digital, a book is a book, not a disposable magazine or newspaper.
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I re-read magazines (the ones I subscribe to), so they aren't disposable, either.
I agree, I re-read a lot of the books and other material I own. Sometimes if I'm not sure whether or not I'd like a new book, I read it at the library first, or read a chapter or so in a store, then buy it or not depending on how well I like it.
We also recently moved, and gave away a lot of books. I think we gave away 7 boxes, and that was about 1/3 of the fiction. But that didn't count the 5 boxes of non-fiction that I "avoided" moving by moving them to my work office first.
If all the books had been eBooks, I probably wouldn't have given any of them away, but I'm not sure I'd have had so many of them in the first place, because a lot of them were books given to me by someone else who was giving away books to solve a storage problem. So the lack of storage convenience has worked in my favor as well as against me.
It would make it easier to find books (or specific passages in books) inmy collection if I could just search digitally, though.